- it's usually the application IE opens when you click in a "mailto:" link; - it's the application IE opens when you click in the e-mail button in IE's toolbar; - outlook embeds IE to read HTML mail; - outlook express uses default IE network settings;
should I continue ?
mozilla's mail app obviously uses Gecko (the rendering engine over wich the software is built) to render e-mail too, but at least it have an option to disable any scripting capability before rendering e-mail. It also doesn't execute binary code, it doesn't even give you the option to do so, it only opens the directory where you saved the binary and YOU have to execute the code.
there's lots of other advantages in using mozilla in terms of usability, security and performance.
he'll have a lot less headaches and concerns in terms of security. mozilla HAS an option to turn off execution of scripts in e-mail and is less prone to security flaws in general than IE/Outlook.
the hassles with pages not opening are worth it. believe me.
that had a 486 fan atached to that huge aluminun heatsink. took 2 slots. I ended up without slots because of it, 2 nics and a SCSI card, so no more big cooling in video cards for me. thank you.
maybe when they move to a smaler interconect size (what they're using in this card ? 0.13 micron ?) it runs cooler. then I'll buy.
"but confirming that it does have significant asset claims in Unix IP" - this means "you can't emulate UNIX or include the ability to run UNIX binaries on other systems without paying us". and remember ppl, GNU is NOT UNIX, so as long as it doesn't run UNIX binaries there's nothing to worry.
"and it is discussing 'possible strategies." - means "we'll include UNIX support in SCO Linux to make it more apealing to UNIX users"
"Calling this movie the worst of the series is a pretty harsh criticism"
no it's not. not for a movie made after "the wrath of khan". twok is _THE_ start treck master-piece and compared to it _ALL_ TNG movies sucked big time.
of course, is hard to beat a master-piece, but TNG movies doesn't have to be that bad.
of course, I host http://comofazer.net in brasil. it actually costs R$ 35,00 for a hundred megs, with mysql, PHP, Perl and other goodies with 3 OC3 links to the web. not bad. and I know the ppl that work there. I worked for the company.
knowing the ppl who take care of the server your sites runs on, the ppl who backs-up your data is important. at for me is.
don't want to put you down, but since it's an alpha release it's not likely to have precompiled packages yet. this means downloading sources and compiling by yourself, wich is not a trivial task.
a step-by-step isn't likely to happen too, since the parameters for compiling might change from one distro to another.
basically:
download sources expand the tar.gz files locate a file called README or INSTALL follow the instructions on them
this probably involve solving dependencies (updating other stuff that KDE needs to run such as openGL, QT, etc.), setting up environment variables, telling the configure script where it's suposed to install the binaries, etc.
what's the point in having an easy tool to detect and configure new hardware if we still don't have drivers for basic things such as easy-to-find software modems ?
or video cards ? or printers, scanners, and the list go on.
hardware manufacturers are paranoid with their "secrets" and many of them believe if they release specs and/or code they'll be giving too much informartion to the competition.
ideally kernel developers would have all the specs they need, but this is a far from perfect world.
another thing: backward compatibility isn't a top priority IMHO, but a standard architecture for the whole system, to allow Average joe to simply download a pre-compiled binary without worrying with distro/version of distro is a good idea.
if the people who develops Linux and who packs Linux with GNU/OS to form the distribution doesn't get a litle more flexible on these points... well... Long Live Windows, because GNU/Linux will be relegated to a niche smaller than Mac/OS on the desktop.
my fisrt kid will be call erik or erika, this way he/she can join the conspiracy
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I've seen enough americans here saying "read the fscking number". but what when the bills are inside a wallet, or purse ?
you have to take all the bills out to read the numbers ? oh, but there's the images, right ? wrong. except for the 1 dolar bill I have no fucking clue of who is in each bill. inside a wallet all of them look the same to me.
now with colors at least I'll know that they're diferent, and it'll be easier to associate the colors with the face value if I ever go to US.
face it, from all the so called "civilized" countries, US is way behind in terms of currency printing technology.
segfault.org is temporarily out of busines or it'll be a good time for an "arcticle" in the lines of "no IE security flaws found this week".
now seriously, this is getting anoying. since I started to rely on mozilla only (or since I ditched netscape 4.x for good) some 6 months ago I saw only ONE serious security flaw reported on it and it was corected in a week or so. but with IE we have at least 2 anoucements a month. this is getting so frequent I'm here asking/. to only publish news about IE when the head line is someting in the lines of the segfault.org's style headline above. It'd save a lot in terms of my patience and bandwidht.
If I understand corectly part of the protection systems recording/studios companies are proposing is based on hardware right ?
and IIRC there's mod chips in the market that allow game consoles (Xbox, PS2, GC, etc) to play DVD from any area, boot copied disks and stuff.
now I ask you, how hard it'll be for a mod chip maker to produce a dirty cheap component that defeats the studios/recorders stupidity ?
the question is serious. how hard it is ? can it be done in a short time frame (like a couple of months) ? and how hard such a chip would be to install ?
and as a last question: what'll prevent overseas manufacturers such as brasilian companies Gradiente and CCE from selling devices that can be unblocked via RC ?
degrading cryptography already exists. it's better know by the term "moore's law".
as the computational power doubles every 18 months, every 18 months teh price and effort required to break older cryptography halves.
tell me, would you trust enigma to safeguard your information ? or 48 bit cyphers ?
enigma was unbreakable by the technology existent (paper and pencil) when it was invented, but the british came with a primitive computer that done the job. 48 bit cyphers probably were incredibly safe 15/20 years ago, now any script kidie with a 1 GHz+ athlon can break it.
the largest producer of movies is India. France AFAIK has restrictions in importing intelectual production from overseas, worlds largest potential consumer market (china) has also restrictions on these subject.
so let the american studios byte theyr own tail. if they start pushing to much control crap over the consumer, the level of rejection against their products will grow in other countries too, then 2 things can happen:
1- media produced in US will end up restricted to a niche market (US itself) OR;
2- The media industry in US (studios, recording companies, etc.) will end up losing money and learning what other industries already know: The consumer is KING. do what the consumer wants. give the consumer liberty and they'll respond buying your products.
""We may have disagreeemtns in what licensing and copyrights mean to our grousp but we both want to use our passion to work together to bring new applications and services to the public and we hope that we can avoid attackign oen another in the process.""
the best move for them, not for the open source comunity. When BillG starts speaking softly is because he's working in some nasty "embrace and extend" strategy, and that's where danger lives...
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it have to do with IE in the following ways:
- it's usually the application IE opens when you click in a "mailto:" link;
- it's the application IE opens when you click in the e-mail button in IE's toolbar;
- outlook embeds IE to read HTML mail;
- outlook express uses default IE network settings;
should I continue ?
mozilla's mail app obviously uses Gecko (the rendering engine over wich the software is built) to render e-mail too, but at least it have an option to disable any scripting capability before rendering e-mail. It also doesn't execute binary code, it doesn't even give you the option to do so, it only opens the directory where you saved the binary and YOU have to execute the code.
there's lots of other advantages in using mozilla in terms of usability, security and performance.
he'll have a lot less headaches and concerns in terms of security. mozilla HAS an option to turn off execution of scripts in e-mail and is less prone to security flaws in general than IE/Outlook.
the hassles with pages not opening are worth it. believe me.
that had a 486 fan atached to that huge aluminun heatsink. took 2 slots. I ended up without slots because of it, 2 nics and a SCSI card, so no more big cooling in video cards for me. thank you.
maybe when they move to a smaler interconect size (what they're using in this card ? 0.13 micron ?) it runs cooler. then I'll buy.
read my previuos comment here.
is what i said. if you use only gnu/linux apps running in plain gnu/linux you don't have to pay.
now, if you use some sort of compatibility layer to run UNIX binaries on gnu/linux they'll charge you a fee.
it's a sane model. after all, it IS their code.
"but confirming that it does have significant asset claims in Unix IP" - this means "you can't emulate UNIX or include the ability to run UNIX binaries on other systems without paying us". and remember ppl, GNU is NOT UNIX, so as long as it doesn't run UNIX binaries there's nothing to worry.
"and it is discussing 'possible strategies." - means "we'll include UNIX support in SCO Linux to make it more apealing to UNIX users"
don't hold your breath waiting for 3d support for S3 cards. Savage 2k is in the market for years and all we have are 2d graphics.
but all i lust for in terms of hardware now is that amazing iBook with a 17" LCD...
_THATS_ a cool piece of hardware. and the best part, it already comes with Unix, so I don't even have to bother instaling linux...
watch closelly, or even participate, on this project. might be useful.
"Calling this movie the worst of the series is a pretty harsh criticism"
no it's not. not for a movie made after "the wrath of khan". twok is _THE_ start treck master-piece and compared to it _ALL_ TNG movies sucked big time.
of course, is hard to beat a master-piece, but TNG movies doesn't have to be that bad.
some one please, bring Kirk back from the dead.
I've always had IBM (IBM as in I've Built Mine) machines, so I never had a windows to refund.
if I ever buy a notebook, I'll try to:
1- buy with linux pre-installed
2- buy one with _NO_ OS whatsoever.
if that's not possible, I'll use brasilian law, that forbides forced bundles such as this, and make them sell the machine without an OS.
Now, the big question.
i installed linux in a compaq iPaq. anyone succeeded in geting a refund for winCE ?
of course, I host http://comofazer.net in brasil. it actually costs R$ 35,00 for a hundred megs, with mysql, PHP, Perl and other goodies with 3 OC3 links to the web. not bad. and I know the ppl that work there. I worked for the company.
knowing the ppl who take care of the server your sites runs on, the ppl who backs-up your data is important. at for me is.
is the head title of this arcticle in The Reg.
basicaly it teaches how to deactivate this backdoor M$ is installing in every win2k box.
now, the original submiter could really consider an alternative.
if U don't like free (as in freedom) open source tools, why not a Solaris box with Oracle to keep the data ? Or an AIX with DB2 ? or PostgreSQL ?
does you REALLY need win2k ????
the reason is:
AMD + Nvidia = crash
unless you pass mem=nopentium to the kernel. and I couldn't figure out how to pass mem=nopentium with GRUB.
GRUB is _SO_ stupid it refuses to run if the parameter after an '=' sign is anything but a number.
don't want to put you down, but since it's an alpha release it's not likely to have precompiled packages yet. this means downloading sources and compiling by yourself, wich is not a trivial task.
a step-by-step isn't likely to happen too, since the parameters for compiling might change from one distro to another.
basically:
download sources
expand the tar.gz files
locate a file called README or INSTALL
follow the instructions on them
this probably involve solving dependencies (updating other stuff that KDE needs to run such as openGL, QT, etc.), setting up environment variables, telling the configure script where it's suposed to install the binaries, etc.
and a kernel interface for binary-only drivers.
what's the point in having an easy tool to detect and configure new hardware if we still don't have drivers for basic things such as easy-to-find software modems ?
or video cards ? or printers, scanners, and the list go on.
hardware manufacturers are paranoid with their "secrets" and many of them believe if they release specs and/or code they'll be giving too much informartion to the competition.
ideally kernel developers would have all the specs they need, but this is a far from perfect world.
another thing: backward compatibility isn't a top priority IMHO, but a standard architecture for the whole system, to allow Average joe to simply download a pre-compiled binary without worrying with distro/version of distro is a good idea.
if the people who develops Linux and who packs Linux with GNU/OS to form the distribution doesn't get a litle more flexible on these points... well... Long Live Windows, because GNU/Linux will be relegated to a niche smaller than Mac/OS on the desktop.
they allow a virtual moustache.
WHAT ??? they changed the rules and didn't tell me ???
someone will get royaly sued !!!
read the rules pal. the host _AND_ the curent champion qualifies automatically.
brasil didn't have to qualify for france98, france didn't have to qualify for corea/japan2002.
next cup, both brasil and germany have free tickets.
my fisrt kid will be call erik or erika, this way he/she can join the conspiracy
I've seen enough americans here saying "read the fscking number". but what when the bills are inside a wallet, or purse ?
you have to take all the bills out to read the numbers ? oh, but there's the images, right ? wrong. except for the 1 dolar bill I have no fucking clue of who is in each bill. inside a wallet all of them look the same to me.
now with colors at least I'll know that they're diferent, and it'll be easier to associate the colors with the face value if I ever go to US.
face it, from all the so called "civilized" countries, US is way behind in terms of currency printing technology.
segfault.org is temporarily out of busines or it'll be a good time for an "arcticle" in the lines of "no IE security flaws found this week".
/. to only publish news about IE when the head line is someting in the lines of the segfault.org's style headline above. It'd save a lot in terms of my patience and bandwidht.
now seriously, this is getting anoying. since I started to rely on mozilla only (or since I ditched netscape 4.x for good) some 6 months ago I saw only ONE serious security flaw reported on it and it was corected in a week or so. but with IE we have at least 2 anoucements a month. this is getting so frequent I'm here asking
mod chips.
If I understand corectly part of the protection systems recording/studios companies are proposing is based on hardware right ?
and IIRC there's mod chips in the market that allow game consoles (Xbox, PS2, GC, etc) to play DVD from any area, boot copied disks and stuff.
now I ask you, how hard it'll be for a mod chip maker to produce a dirty cheap component that defeats the studios/recorders stupidity ?
the question is serious. how hard it is ? can it be done in a short time frame (like a couple of months) ? and how hard such a chip would be to install ?
and as a last question: what'll prevent overseas manufacturers such as brasilian companies Gradiente and CCE from selling devices that can be unblocked via RC ?
degrading cryptography already exists. it's better know by the term "moore's law".
as the computational power doubles every 18 months, every 18 months teh price and effort required to break older cryptography halves.
tell me, would you trust enigma to safeguard your information ? or 48 bit cyphers ?
enigma was unbreakable by the technology existent (paper and pencil) when it was invented, but the british came with a primitive computer that done the job. 48 bit cyphers probably were incredibly safe 15/20 years ago, now any script kidie with a 1 GHz+ athlon can break it.
call this "cypher rotting" if you want.
before modinf me down, read further.
the largest producer of movies is India. France AFAIK has restrictions in importing intelectual production from overseas, worlds largest potential consumer market (china) has also restrictions on these subject.
so let the american studios byte theyr own tail. if they start pushing to much control crap over the consumer, the level of rejection against their products will grow in other countries too, then 2 things can happen:
1- media produced in US will end up restricted to a niche market (US itself) OR;
2- The media industry in US (studios, recording companies, etc.) will end up losing money and learning what other industries already know: The consumer is KING. do what the consumer wants. give the consumer liberty and they'll respond buying your products.
""We may have disagreeemtns in what licensing and copyrights mean to our grousp but we both want to use our passion to work together to bring new applications and services to the public and we hope that we can avoid attackign oen another in the process.""
the best move for them, not for the open source comunity. When BillG starts speaking softly is because he's working in some nasty "embrace and extend" strategy, and that's where danger lives...